Rachael, the six year old novelist!

November is National Novel Writing Month!

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I downloaded the Young Author workbook and did some of the activities with Rachael (and Rebecca joined us for some of it.)

We haven't gotten to the actual plot yet, but we came up with two characters, a hero and a villain, and here's a composite of the questions Rachael answered about hers:


HERO - SIX YEAR OLD VERA

Vera lives on a island, like Sal. (From a Robert McCloskey book). She likes it. She sometimes even visits the birds.
She is the same height as Rachael, with reddish-dark hair, straight and long.
She is scared of centipedes.
Her favorite foods are rice and potatoes. Her favorite dessert is ice cream with sprinkles.
He hobby is being a helper at an ice cream shop.
She's really good at swimming.

After Vera has had a bad day, what makes her happy is just knowing that she survived through that day.

What makes Vera angry? Sometimes she goes to school and there's usually somebody she doesn't like. Vera doesn't get angry, she gets worried when the person walks in, looking a little vain.

Sometimes Vera's parents are mean, and sometimes they're up for anything.

Vera has one secret. If she ever tells somebody that her parents think she's moving to another house, they would feel really sad, and she doesn't want to make her friends sad.

Vera is kind of pretty and pretty smart. She always likes playing with her Grandma. Her favorite princess is Ariel, and her next favorite is Jasmine.

Sometimes she's a tattletale.

She's afraid of spooky forests and spooky trees and stuff like that.

More than anything else in the world, she wants puzzle games. She really loves puzzle games like tic-tac-toe. Something you write on a board or piece of paper.

Sometimes, for vacation, her family goes down to the beach on the island they live on and set up beach things and pretend that it's a far-away vacation.

The best thing that's ever happened to Vera was being picked by the teacher to be the leader during music time at school. She thinks that's the best!

The worst thing that's ever happened to Vera was one time she got lost and couldn't find her mother til lunchtime.

Hanging on her bedroom walls are a few pictures of ballerinas and a few cross-stitches she made.


VILLAIN -SIX YEAR OLD EMMA

Emma is a kid from Vera's school. She lives close by Vera, on the edge of the same island.
Emma has frizzy, red hair and is a little vain. She has olive-green eyes.
She hates it when she makes fun of Vera and Vera makes fun of Emma back.

Emma loves to make forts with her dad.
Her favorite foods are rice, potatoes, and lettuce. (They don't have grocery stores on the island.)

Emma has a secret: She wants to move closer to Vera's house so she can make fun of her more.
The only likeable thing about her is that she's nice to Vera's best friend, Day-shee.

More than anything, Emma wants to be the best at everything, like Sharpay from High School Musical.

She's not very good at painting. Whenever she tries to paint her dollhouse, it just makes more blobs.

The best thing that ever happened to Emma is that she was picked at the queen in the Christmas play that is coming up.